{"id":7069,"date":"2024-07-23T16:30:41","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T21:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7069"},"modified":"2024-07-23T16:30:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T21:30:46","slug":"dengue-fever-is-unfortunately-having-a-banner-year-can-it-be-quelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/07\/23\/dengue-fever-is-unfortunately-having-a-banner-year-can-it-be-quelled\/","title":{"rendered":"Dengue fever is \u2014 unfortunately \u2014 having a banner year. Can it be quelled?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goats-and-soda\/2024\/07\/23\/g-s1-12674\/dengue-mosquitoes-climate-virus-americas\">NPR<\/a> In the Americas alone, almost&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paho.org\/en\/documents\/situation-report-no-25-dengue-epidemiological-situation-region-americas-epidemiological\">10.4 million suspected cases<\/a>&nbsp;of dengue, a mosquito-borne viral disease, were reported to the World Health Organization in 2024 as of the first week of July, an increase of 232% compared with the same period the year before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peru is a case in point. When torrential rains started to fall there in 2023, a record-breaking&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/americas\/el-nino-rains-intensify-record-dengue-outbreak-peru-2023-06-08\/\">dengue epidemic<\/a>&nbsp;exploded shortly afterward. The case count is estimated at well over 100,000 so far this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And dengue isn&#8217;t just stalking the Americas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Chad, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Vietnam are among the countries now registering uncharacteristically high numbers of cases of the disease. Many are struggling to get epidemics under control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goats-and-soda\/2024\/07\/23\/g-s1-12674\/dengue-mosquitoes-climate-virus-americas\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR In the Americas alone, almost&nbsp;10.4 million suspected cases&nbsp;of dengue, a mosquito-borne viral disease, were reported to the World Health Organization in 2024 as of the first week of July, an increase of 232% compared with the same period the year before. Peru is a case in point. When torrential rains started to fall there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dengue"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7070,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7069\/revisions\/7070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}